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- Some cursory notes on the usage of BASH on the Atari ST.
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- I. Bash - The GNU Bourne Again SHell port for the Atari-ST is a complete
- implimentaton of BASH as distributed by the FSF. The only parts
- that have been disabled if the MAIL and NETWORK services, as they
- are most useless under TOS.
-
- Bye itself, Bash is almost useless. To fully appreciate and use Bash one
- needs a full compliment of file utilities. The builtin commands to Bash
- may be seen bye typing "help<cr>" while in Bash. A nice set of file utilities
- that work well with Bash are the GNU FileUtilities V2.1, that I have also
- ported to the ST, and should be available at atari.archive.umich.edu(.)
-
- The only available hard documentation available at the present is a complete
- manual page (ala Unix) for Bash; it is included in this distribution in
- [nt]roff amd PS form.
-
- When Bash is started on the ST, it does the folowing.
-
- (a). Checks to see if the variables "TERM"
- are set. "UNIXMODE"
- "HOME"
-
- (b). If the above are not set it sets them to "atari"
- respectively. "/.,LAHdb"
- "./"
-
- (c). Looks for $HOME/.bash_login and sources it if it is found.
-
- Note that this port of Bash is fully UNIXMODE aware and its
- startup files are the same as the UNIX version, ".bashrc"
- ".bash_login"
-
- As I said this is very cursory and is just meant to give people something
- to help get them going. I will field questions and take comments/bug-reports
- as I will continue to work on this as time permits. My thanx go out to
- Jwahar Bammi and Edgar Roeder.
-
- Scott Kolodzieski
- scott@sparc1.stevens-tech.edu